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title: No one staid at home with the women and children and boys but the wh… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: No one staid at home with the women and children and boys but the white-haired "Fathers," as they were called, who made the laws for the city, and a small company of men who guarded the walls. Who acts: one, men. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Story of Cincinnatus.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Cincinnatus., sentence 13

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No one staid at home with the women and children and boys but the white-haired "Fathers," as they were called, who made the laws for the city, and a small company of men who guarded the walls.

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**Who acts:** one, men · **What happens:** call, make, guard · **To what, where:** Fathers, laws, walls · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Story of Cincinnatus.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, men), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg18442:27:13
# text = No one staid at home with the women and children and boys but the white-haired "Fathers," as they were called, who made the laws for the city, and a small company of men who guarded the walls.
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	staid	staid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	haired	haired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Fathers	father	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
22	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
28	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	laws	law	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nmod	_	_
41	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	42	nsubj	_	_
42	guarded	guard	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	acl:relcl	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past · passive |  | Fathers *= father* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **make** | past | no one at home with the women and children and boys but haired Fathers | the laws |  |  |  | for the city; a small company of men *obl* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent law=Product for city=Asset |
| 3 | **guard** | past | men | the walls |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wall=Beneficiary |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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